Parliament’s Engagement with the Public: A Fair Process?
...Parliament’s work and processes. The UK Parliament has increased its efforts to engage with the public in the last two decades. There are a number of ways in which this...
MPs
MPs’ outside interests - reasonable limits?
...scandal. Lord Nolan’s Committee concluded ‘MPs should remain free to have paid employment unrelated to their role as an MP’ alongside important recommendations to improve and enforce standards including increased...
Action is needed to stop intimidation in public life
...individuals are pressured to withdraw from debate or even step down. As an independent committee, our job is to advise the prime minister and make recommendations grounded in the best...
Building a better culture in Parliament
Posted by:
Monisha Shah, Posted on:
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Categories:
Accountability, Ethical standards, MPs, Nolan Principles
...new MPs, new and explicit codes of conduct, and the extraordinary bravery of individual voices in bringing bad behaviour to light, these scandals recur with unedifying regularity. A scandal breaks,...